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When I moved from India, I found it very difficult to identify the fishes in the local market. In India I knew the local name of most fishes but in a foreign land it was difficult to select some. I was totally confused.All fish looked the same :) So I just referred to some fish related sites to get the local names and their english names along with pictures( a picture says a thousand words) so that one can identify the fishes easily with no further confusion. So no more confusion. The fish glossary contains fish name translation in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, konkani, bengali, marthi and Arabic names form the UAE and gulf market and some name in sindhi and balochi languages. You can check the reference at the bottom of the blog for malaysian, Singapore and Pinoy names for the fishes. Help me correct, if I have written any names wrong. Before going to the fish glossary , lets check the how to select a fresh fish and for Good Seafood Recipes check this page:

'The freshness Factor - How to buy Fresh Fish'

REDGILL DELIGHTBright scarlet gills/bright pink or red on a fish mean it’s freshly caught. A dull color is old fish. A red dye is often applied to the gills to make appear fresh , so beware

FIRMNESS TEST
Softness/mushy means fish is old, a hard form means freshness. Finger tips shouldn't leave an impression . Old Fishes are sometimes frozen to make it hard, to misled people

SNIFF TEST

Rotten fish have foul Smell. While selling in heaps rotten fishes are often mixed with fresh ones

TEXTURE AND SHINE

The skin should be shiny and moist. No brown Spots. It shows the sign of decay. must have an appearance of a live fish. A dull looking fish means OLD

THREADFIN BREAM
Threadfin bream a perch like fish that is found in coastal Asian waters. It is called a threadfin because of the filaments that hang from its tail.

Finletted Mackerel
See Horse Mackerel:
The torpedo scad, Megalaspis cordyla (also known as the hardtail scad, finny scad, finletted mackerel scad and cordyla scad), is a species of moderately large marine fish classified in the jack and horse mackerel family

Red Mullet and Indian Goatfish Difference
Red mullet and Indian goatfish (Parupeneus indicus) are often confused. The red mullets or surmullets are two species of goatfish, Mullus barbatus and Mullus surmuletus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, east North Atlantic Ocean, and the Black Sea.They are both favored delicacies in the Mediterranean, and in antiquity were "one of the most famous and valued fish".[Wiki]

Red mullet has a distinctive set of 4-5 broad, dark brown bands on the body.For a clear view check the picture with the close up of 2 mullets.Red mullet have a alternating blue and yellow lines on the head and snout, pink chin barbels with yellow tips, and blue spots in lines along the body.The red mullet is expensive since it tastes good and is easy to clean & bone.

Trout is a fish of perennial mountain streams of clear cool water of high (above 6 p.p.m.) oxygen content and thrives in lakes also.

Trout is a group of Salmonid fishes, is well known as excellent game fish in India.It is not indigenous to India but was brought by British angling enthusiasts separately into Kashmir, Nilgiris, Kodai and Munnar range of Kerala.

this site is so helpful i often got confused while going to market with the fish names as i live in tamilnadu this site help me to differentiate with tamil and malayalam fish names thanks a lot for the information

I also would like THANK YOU SO MUCH for this great job. I went to the market today.... then home....and search through this blog the fishes I found in the market. Once more Thank you! Now I will loke for some recipes... :-) Ingrid

great work keep it up .........so many names its a dictionery....a summary....concise. compact with pictures....i dont have words to appreciate .....thanks a lot for helping thousands of people in this regard....thanks a lot

From my childhood I use to eat different fishes...now I am 30, but still I am confused with fish types. Its always a big puzzle to me to identify fish and know the names. After seeing your fish catalog..now I find it easy to identify fish.. and say with confidense what the kind of fish it is...Thanks a lot Dear...a big applaud to your efforts

This was VERY informative.. But for one thing, the names and the corresponding language names are VERY confusing. If you could make some consistent form without a language name like "other" that will be great.

also could i PLEASE request typing them in at least one Indian script so we would all know exactly how to pronounce them? or if possible in each individual script with the help of some crowd-sourcing ??

Admiring the commitment you put into your blog and in depth information you offer. It's nice to come across a blog every once in a while that isn't the same out of date rehashed material. Excellent read!I've bookmarked your site and I'm adding your RSS feeds to my Google account.Also see my page: Click Me

Though a converted vegan, my family still cooks fish dishes. Being a foodie, I read some of your recipes, which I am going to pass on to my family and your attempt at creating the glossary for fish names. Great work!!!

Very Good work.Congratulations. I am from a fisherman family from south tamilnadu. Some of the fish names are mismatch with the name we call in our area. Of course different fishes, different people and different name.

For starters I would like to applaud you for taking the time to put together this article. For me its the other way around when it comes to the names. I know the English ones but not the Indian ones. The pictures come in handy for the ones I am not sure about as I can show them to my parents and they know exactly which ones I am after. So thank you so much and your effort is very much appreciated.

Exhaustive and mostly exact list of fish that enables one to identify all the fish that are available in the place! Many websites give different names to the same fish shown. This blog clears mind of the confusion that is created by those websites. Thanks for its contents for having given more insight on the fish names.

It is an extremely helpful site to identify the fish. Many names in local language has not been given. For example Mackerel in Oriya is Bijiram or Binjiram,Sardines in Oriya is Kokili, Cat fish black is Magura and the white one is Kantia in Oriya.River Catfish white is Jalanga.There are many more names The author should have an interactive place to upload local name against each fish. Any way a great site for naturalists. M.Akhtar,Life Member ,Bombay Natural History Society, Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Its good to be here, very nice post, the content is amazing, keep posting friend it will be very helpful for everyone, Thanks for sharing. I really liked it.Thanks And Regards Sea Food markets Online company.

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oops! what amount of unselFISH effort put in for the benefit of others. Amazingly helpful for fish lovers,when we read articles by nutrition experts giving English we are at wits end to know which fish they MEAN!( fish in tamil is meen!)Thanks for this informative glossary.

Can someone please let me know the English name of Mallie ( Mallly) fish as sold here in Delhi , India. It is of small size , king-fish (Surmai) like and has scales like king fish, slight brownish in texture.Thanks

I agree there was a great deal of work and labour that you have put in, but there were a number of errors in bangali names, I am not sure about the others. Kaushik please check before commenting on a public forum, Boal is not a shark. Please check..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boal_%28fish%29

in my school days we use to catch karup fish ... from ponds and small streams old people says that even the pond is dry ed and if tr is mud it can bury it self and stay alive till the next rainy season ... some people even reported that ty found this fish over the coconut trees .. this is boz ty will be carried by birds like crows or some cranes ... do u know wat u call this fish in english

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